Schiff didn’t doctor the text message, you guys. He only fabricated a screenshot that didn’t exist, deleted half a sentence, added punctuation where there was none, deleted two paragraphs, and had no clue it wasn’t even written by Jordan. https://t.co/xsW4GNft92
— Sean Davis (@seanmdav) December 15, 2021
So the original text was written by Washington attorney and former Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, not a congressman. Schiff cuts it up to make it look how he wants it to look, then lies and says it was from a Republican Congressman.
Now you have to know that the Jan 6th committee is hitting its stride when they have had two major gaffes just this week that show they are either enormously out of touch with reality, or just downright lying. By the time the final report comes down we will not know what it even remotely real or just more outright lies from liars like Schiff.
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Funny how Lil Schitty embarrasses himself by project that other people may not have written something that he did not like, where most of his threads he steals from other sources without question.....Very sad indeed!!!!
Damn fatty you’re making word salads Alky would be impressed with
Dayum shorty, don't you have a pig to fuck???????? BWAAAAAAAAAAA!!!!!
Roger,
This is not the first time I have asked this question, and I doubt it will be the last: What on earth is going on with Joe Biden?
Typically, we draw attention to his brain freeze moments before the teleprompter or the times he’s forgotten things such as where he is, what office he was running for or the name of the Pentagon, the secretary of defense and the person he picked to fill this Cabinet seat, all at once.
Watch: Biden Speaks Total Gibberish About Grandmom Falling Off the Porch and Paying Bills
These are all consistent with a man who, at the very least in appearance only, has a hard time staying focused, using a teleprompter and remembering simple information that is highly pertinent to the tasks on hand.
I’ve been suffering from a severe case of mom brain for nearly a decade now and probably forget why I’ve walked into a room or mixed up my kids’ names at least once a day. Of course, I’m not the leader of the free world and I don’t have access to the nuclear codes.
Nonetheless, sure, we could say that just because Biden is alarmingly foggy-brained doesn’t necessarily mean he’s going to blow us all up because he got his video game controller mixed up with the nuclear football.
There’s a whole team of people around him to keep him on track, right?
After all, we know that Biden has expressed a fear that he’ll “get in trouble” if he takes too many questions from reporters.
We know that there are people to write him helpful notes about what’s on his chin when he’s on live TV.
Powell announced 3 rate increases in 2023, .75 to a full point increase in interest rates.
The reason given, to fight inflation.
Omg , that is funny as fuck.
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In private text messages on Jan. 6, Fox News hosts condemned President Trump’s response to the attack. In public, those same hosts deflected blame from Trump.
It is not ok to fake evidence.
James, are you still publically begging for OPM?
Roger can give ya some tips on how to do it.
Denny a near multi-millionaire refused to send you money.
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Thankfully the drooling fucking imbecile stayed away from the Army-Navy game last weekend at Met-Life Stadium. I'm sure that it was because of FJB and there was no way in hell Ron Klain was going to allow him to attend.
Donald Trump Video Speech Condemning Capitol Violence
On January 13, President Donald Trump released another video condemning the riots & attacks at the U.S. Capitol. He released the video shortly after his second impeachment by the House of Representatives.
DONALD TRUMP:
My fellow Americans, I want to speak to you tonight about the troubling events of the past week. As I have said, the incursion of the US Capitol struck at the very heart of our Republic. It angered and appalled millions of Americans across the political spectrum.
I want to be very clear, I unequivocally condemn the violence that we saw last week. Violence and vandalism have absolutely no place in our country and no place in our movement.
...Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice.
I COULDN'T HAVE SAID IT BETTER MYSELF, DONALD.
THE DIFFERENCE IS, I'D BE TELLING THE TRUTH, WHILE YOU WERE LYING, LYING, LYING.
It's for the greater good...
https://twitter.com/i/status/1470218510269878273
On topic -
Schiff belongs in a maximum security prison like Attica.
For life.
In the general population.
https://twitter.com/i/status/1470218510269878273
After listening to the silly balderdash rrb rrb put there, be sure to scroll down for the REALLY GOOD STUFF.
...Those who engaged in the attacks last week will be brought to justice.
Yes!!!
And they will be charged with -
'Parading'
'Misdemeanor Trespass.'
'Unauthorized Entry & Tourism'
They will not be charged with Treason, Sedition or Insurrection.
Why you ask?
Because this was bullshit from the jump and it remains bullshit to this day.
Bullshit totally orchestrated by our FBI.
Trump may face charges
Capitol riot committee weighing an 'explosive question' on Trump's criminal liability: report
Brad Reed
December 15, 2021
Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) earlier this week subtly implicated former President Donald Trump in potentially committing a felony -- and according to a new report from Politico, Cheney wasn't just speaking off the cuff.
According to the publication, "members of the Jan. 6 select committee are homing in on a politically explosive question: Did Donald Trump’s actions amid the Capitol attack amount to criminal obstruction of Congress?"
While many individual rioters who stormed the Capitol that day have been charged with criminal obstruction of Congress, Trump so far has not faced any criminal charges.
However, newly released text messages given to the committee by former Trump chief of staff Mark Meadows show that Trump allies were begging him to intervene to stop the riots -- and despite this, Trump did nothing about them for more than three hours.
READ MORE: Tucker Carlson's 'red-faced man' conspiracy theory about Capitol rioters just fell apart
The Politico report details specific elements of the crime that could apply to Trump if they're successfully deployed against MAGA rioters.
"To convict someone of that crime, a jury must determine that a defendant took an obstructive action, affected an 'official proceeding' and acted with 'corrupt' intentions," the publication writes. "There are several obstruction statutes in the criminal code, but the one deployed by prosecutors in Jan. 6 cases is among the most severe, carrying a whopping 20-year maximum sentence."
Determining Trump's mindset during the riots would be key to proving this charge, which is why the committee has been seeking people who were in the room with him as the riots were unfolding to testify about his actions.
J. Edgar Hoover is running the FBI
How could they have engaged in "the attacks," as Trump said, if they were only parading?
So now even rrb is calling Trump a liar.
It was right there on America's screens, those attacks.
So now even rrb is calling Trump a liar.
No asshole, my comment is based upon what the protestors were actually CHARGED WITH.
You dishonest piece of shit.
And you yourself also lied.
Some are charged with felonies,
so why does your list not contain
'felonies.'
Know what a felony is?
fel·o·ny
noun
a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death.
"he pleaded guilty to six felonies"
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Benghazi when his country needs him?
On Sept. 11, 2012, terrorists attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans died.
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On Jan. 6, 2021, terrorists attacked the U.S. Capitol. Five people died during the attack and its immediate aftermath, including a police officer. Four more officers died by suicide in the following months. Another 140 police were injured.
The differing responses to the two tragedies show the rank hypocrisy in the Republican Party and the sickness that has taken hold of it.
Lawmakers launched eight congressional investigations of Benghazi over four years, culminating in a two-year, $7 million select-committee extravaganza led by Gowdy (R-S.C.), now out of Congress. Theirs was an unrelenting (and unsuccessful) campaign to prove a preconceived premise that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had arranged for the U.S. military to “stand down” instead of coming to the aid of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and the other three victims.
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Now we know, thanks to the text messages of former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, that while domestic terrorists were sacking the Capitol and legislators hid in fear for their lives, several Republican lawmakers, Fox News personalities and Donald Trump Jr. reached out to Meadows to urge President Donald Trump to call off the attack. Trump refused for hours, and his Pentagon stalled on an urgent plea to deploy the National Guard to defend the Capitol.
Essentially, Trump did just what Republicans falsely accused Clinton of doing in Benghazi. And attacking the U.S. seat of government is orders of magnitude worse than attacking a diplomatic outpost.
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Rep. Darrell Issa (R-Calif.), a lead Benghazi investigator, asked in 2014 “why there was not one order given to turn on one Department of Defense asset” to repel the attack? “I have my suspicions, which is Secretary Clinton told [Defense Secretary Leon Panetta] to stand down.”
They never showed that Clinton had anything to do with a military response, that there was a “stand down” order, that the military could have done anything in time to stop the tragic outcome or that politics influenced the Obama administration’s actions.
By contrast, we know beyond all doubt that Trump on Jan. 6 refused to stop his own supporters’ bloody rampage — one he incited. Yet GOP lawmakers, after reacting in initial horror to Trump’s actions, now defend them absolutely and punish heretical Republicans who refuse to join the whitewash.
The hypocrisy doesn’t end there. The No. 1 conclusion of Gowdy’s Benghazi report: “The First Victim of War is Truth.” Investigators were outraged the Obama administration initially said the Benghazi attack began as a protest, which turned out to be false. “The truth is always important. It is especially so during times when we as a nation must face a crisis — and mourn one — together and to learn from it,” Reps. Jim Jordan (Ohio) and Mike Pompeo (Kan.), later Trump’s secretary of state, wrote in an addendum. “Instead of sharing that truth, the administration concealed it. And in doing so it misled the American people for political gain.”
Now, Republicans are lining up behind the proven lies that Jan. 6 was perpetrated by antifa, that it was a “normal tourist visit” or that Trump tried his best to stop the violence — all in service of the big, democracy-killing lie that the election was stolen.
Jim Jordan is a fascist and child molester.
Trump may be facing the death penalty for treason
The investigation is closing in on Trump and his supporters.
Jim Jordan is a fascist and child molester.
LMAO.
You have to lie about Jordan like you lied about Gaetz.
That's what your team has come to be known by alky.
The LIES.
Most predictable.
Some are charged with felonies,
so why does your list not contain
'felonies.'
So list the "felonies" pederast.
I haven't seen one yet.
You claim they exist, then substantiate YOUR CLAIM.
rrb also lied.
Some of the rioters are charged with felonies,
so why does his list not contain
'felonies'?
Know what a felony is?
fel·o·ny
noun
a crime, typically one involving violence, regarded as more serious than a misdemeanor, and usually punishable by imprisonment for more than one year or by death.
It has long been clear that Meadows is a Trump sycophant. Now the question is whether his eagerness to please included breaking the law. The Jan. 6 committee needs to take a hard line with the former chief of staff who never drew a line for Trump.
Read more at: https://www.newsobserver.com/opinion/article256554171.html#storylink=cpy
WAY BACK IN JULY.
FUNNY RRB HASN'T HEARD OF IT.
First US Capitol rioter convicted of a felony gets 8 months in prison after DOJ says stiffer sentence could stop future attacks
Marshall Cohen
By Marshall Cohen
Updated 5:45 PM ET, Tue July 20, 2021
Trump may be facing the death penalty for treason
Says the cuckoo locked in a nursing home.
YOU REALLY GOT HIM THIS TIME ALKY!!!11!
Anyway, so what you're saying is Trump must be destroyed and prohibited from running in 2024 because you cannot beat him in the election.
The depth of your field is impressive alky.
The incumbent is such a fucking mess he might not live to see the day.
His VP is a $10 whore with ZERO accomplishments at ANY level other than on her back or on her knees.
And the list of 11 that CNN's Cillizza posted the other day is a clown car laugh riot.
So between your Jan 6 charade and Cy Vance's fishing expedition...
...that's really the only chance you have, is to take Trump OUT. You are fucking desperate to make this so, because if you don't, you're fucking DONE.
Feeling those 'walls closing in', alky?
Is this the 'beginning of the end,' alky?
Desperate for a 'bombshell', alky?
Heh, heh, heh...
You should be.
Good job, pederast.
One in a row.
If only your list of child victims was that short.
I say we treat Meadows with the same harshness we treated Holder when HE was held in contempt of congress.
LOL.
Wouldn't want to be seen as a hypocrite on this would you now alky?
this initial wave of guilty pleas and sentencings will eventually be followed up by dozens of more serious felony cases with longer prison terms
More than 100 defendants have been charged with felonies like civil disorder; destruction of government property, and assaulting, resisting, or impeding federal officers. These crimes tend to be straightforward to prove, since they don't require prosecutors to dig into intent. And with there being no shortage of security footage, police body camera video and social media livestreaming, there has been ample evidence of the alleged assaults and thefts.
Suuuuuuuuure they were, pederast.
Suuuuuuuuuuuuuuuure they were.
Gosh, I hope they lock all those mee-maws and paw-paws up for life for their uninvited touristy stroll through the rotunda. Especially the ones who were nice enough to stay inside the velvet ropes. Those fuckers deserve to DIE.
Ashli Babbitt's death was officially ruled a HOMICIDE pederast. Where's the piece of shit who murdered HER these day, eh?
Maybe the dumb fuck, affirmative action 'Bell Curve' moron will leave his service weapon in the shitter again.
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Alex Henderson
December 15, 2021
This week, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi’s select committee on the January 6 insurrection revealed that during that period, a “lawmaker” sent a text to then-White House Chief of Staff Mark Meadows saying that then-Vice President Mike Pence shouldn’t honor electoral votes for Joe Biden if he thought they were “unconstitutional.” And that “lawmaker” was Rep. Jim Jordan of Ohio, his office confirmed to Politico.
In his text to Meadows, the far-right Jordan wrote, “On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence. ‘No legislative act,’ wrote Alexander Hamilton in Federalist No. 78, ‘contrary to the Constitution, can be valid.’”
Jordan continued, “The court in Hubbard v. Lowe reinforced this truth: ‘That an unconstitutional statute is not a law at all is a proposition no longer open to discussion.’ 226 F. 135, 137 (SDNY 1915), appeal dismissed, 242 U.S. 654 (1916).”
Jordan’s office, according to Politico’s Kyle Cheney, has “confirmed” that he sent that text to Meadows — who, the U.S. House of Representatives voted, should be held in contempt of Congress for failing to cooperate with the January 6 committee.
You are a traitor. But because you are a private citizen you can say anything you want except shouting fire.
But Trump was the President when he staged an attempted coup...
Danny Cevallos Capitol rioter admits to new felonies while representing himself.
Prosecutors are loving it.
The best part of putting together their cases against Jan. 6 participants? A lot of the incriminating evidence has come from the rioters themselves — and keeps on coming.
Looks like the suuuuuuure were, rat rodent republican bastard
lol
The fake news confirmed your post.
The House of Representatives committee investigating the Jan. 6 breach of the U.S. Capitol acknowledged on Wednesday that it doctored a text message between former White House chief of staff Mark Meadows and Rep. Jim Jordan (R-Ohio), excluding content about how they wanted former Vice President Mike Pence to handle electoral votes during the Joint Session of Congress earlier this year.
On Monday, Rep. Adam Schiff (D-Calif.), the head of the House Intelligence Committee, showed a graphic during a hearing on newly obtained communications between Meadows and others, including Jordan. The graphic was displayed as the Jan. 6 panel was discussing whether to hold Meadows in contempt of Congress for refusing to hand over information related to the probe.
The graphic included the title “Lawmaker Text to Meadows.”
The message was presented as follows: “On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all.”
“You can see why this is so critical to ask Mr. Meadows about. About a lawmaker suggesting that the former vice president simply throw out votes that he unilaterally deems unconstitutional in order to overturn a presidential election and subvert the will of the American people,” Schiff said.
However, the message was actually a direct quote from former Department of Defense Inspector General Joseph Schmitz, according to The Federalist. The text included an attachment of Schmitz’s determination that Pence could object to electoral votes from states.
The text was also altered to cut off the rest of the sentence, which stated, “in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence,” the outlet said.
In short, felony murder charges are definitely on the table for at least some of the people who stormed the Capitol. But it remains to be seen how broadly the rule can be applied to the rest.
You won't read it or call it fake news but the investigation is getting more information about the attempted coup on January 6th.
Meadows and the Band of Loyalists: How They Fought to Keep Trump in Power https://nyti.ms/3oXcv1T
They tried to get the DOJ to call it fraudulent.
November
On Nov. 9, two days after The Associated Press called the race for Mr. Biden, crisis meetings were underway at Trump campaign headquarters in Arlington, Va.
Mr. Perry and Mr. Jordan huddled with senior White House officials, including Mr. Meadows; Stephen Miller, a top Trump adviser; Bill Stepien, the campaign manager; and Kayleigh McEnany, the White House press secretary.
According to two people familiar with the meetings, which have not been previously reported, the group settled on a strategy that would become a blueprint for Mr. Trump’s supporters in Congress: Hammer home the idea that the election was tainted, announce legal actions being taken by the campaign, and bolster the case with allegations of fraud.
At a news conference later that day, Ms. McEnany delivered the message.
“This election is not over,” she said. “Far from it.”
Mr. Jordan’s spokesman said that the meeting was to discuss media strategy, not to overturn the election.
On cable television and radio shows and at rallies, the lawmakers used unproved fraud claims to promote the idea that the election had been stolen. Mr. Brooks said he would never vote to certify Mr. Trump’s loss. Mr. Jordan told Fox News that ballots were counted in Pennsylvania after the election, contrary to state law. Mr. Gohmert claimed in Philadelphia that there was “rampant” voter fraud and later said on YouTube that the U.S. military had seized computer servers in Germany used to flip American votes.
Mr. Gosar pressed Doug Ducey, the Republican governor of Arizona, to investigate voting equipment made by Dominion Voting Systems, a company at the heart of several false conspiracy theories that Mr. Trump and his allies spread.
Mr. Gosar embraced the fraud claims so closely that his chief of staff, Tom Van Flein, rushed to an airplane hangar parking lot in Phoenix after a conspiracy theory began circulating that a suspicious jet carrying ballots from South Korea was about to land, perhaps in a bid to steal the election from Mr. Trump, according to court documents filed by one of the participants. The claim turned out to be baseless.
Mr. Van Flein did not respond to detailed questions about the episode.
Even as the fraud claims grew increasingly outlandish, Attorney General William P. Barr authorized federal prosecutors to look into “substantial allegations” of voting irregularities. Critics inside and outside the Justice Department slammed the move, saying it went against years of the department’s norms and chipped away at its credibility. But Mr. Barr privately told advisers that ignoring the allegations — no matter how implausible — would undermine faith in the election, according to Mr. Donoghue’s testimony.
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And in any event, administration officials and lawmakers believed the claims would have little effect on the peaceful transfer of power to Mr. Biden from Mr. Trump, according to multiple former officials.
Mainstream Republicans like Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, the majority leader, said on Nov. 9 that Mr. Trump had a right to investigate allegations of irregularities, “A few legal inquiries from the president do not exactly spell the end of the Republic,” Mr. McConnell said.
December
On Dec. 1, 2020, Mr. Barr said publicly what he knew to be true: The Justice Department had found no evidence of widespread election fraud. Mr. Biden was the lawful winner.
The attorney general’s declaration seemed only to energize the six lawmakers. Mr. Gohmert suggested that the F.B.I. in Washington could not be trusted to investigate election fraud. Mr. Biggs said that Mr. Trump’s allies needed “the imprimatur, quite frankly of the D.O.J.,” to win their lawsuits claiming fraud.
They turned their attention to Jan. 6, when Mr. Pence was to officially certify Mr. Biden’s victory. Mr. Jordan, asked if the president should concede, replied, “No way.”
The lawmakers started drumming up support to derail the transfer of power.
Mr. Gohmert sued Mr. Pence in an attempt to force him to nullify the results of the election. Mr. Perry circulated a letter written by Pennsylvania state legislators to Mr. McConnell and Representative Kevin McCarthy of California, the House Republican leader, asking Congress to delay certification. “I’m obliged to concur,” Mr. Perry wrote.
Mr. Meadows remained the key leader. When disputes broke out among organizers of the pro-Trump “Stop the Steal” rallies, he stepped in to mediate, according to two organizers, Dustin Stockton and Jennifer Lynn Lawrence.
In one case, Mr. Meadows helped settle a feud about whether to have one or two rallies on Jan. 6. The organizers decided that Mr. Trump would make what amounted to an opening statement about election fraud during his speech at the Ellipse, then the lawmakers would rise in succession during the congressional proceeding and present evidence they had gathered of purported fraud.
(That plan was ultimately derailed by the attack on Congress, Mr. Stockton said.)
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Mr. Trump at the rally outside the White House on Jan. 6. “We fight like hell, and if you don’t fight like hell, you’re not going to have a country anymore,” he told his supporters.
On Dec. 21, Mr. Trump met with members of the Freedom Caucus to discuss their plans. Mr. Jordan, Mr. Gosar, Mr. Biggs, Mr. Brooks and Mr. Meadows were there.
“This sedition will be stopped,” Mr. Gosar wrote on Twitter.
Asked about such meetings, Mr. Gosar’s chief of staff said the congressman and his colleagues “have and had every right to attend rallies and speeches.”
“None of the members could have anticipated what occurred (on Jan. 6),” Mr. Van Flein added.
Mr. Perry was finding ways to exert pressure on the Justice Department. He introduced Mr. Trump to Mr. Clark, the acting head of the department’s civil division who became one of the Stop the Steal movement’s most ardent supporters.
Then, after Christmas, Mr. Perry called Mr. Donoghue to share his voter fraud dossier, which focused on unfounded election fraud claims in Pennsylvania.
I had never heard of him before that day,” Mr. Donoghue would later testify to Senate investigators. He assumed that Mr. Trump had given Mr. Perry his personal cellphone number, as the president had done with others who were eager to pressure Justice Department officials to support the false idea of a rigged election.
Mr. Donoghue passed the dossier on to Scott Brady, the U.S. attorney for the Western District of Pennsylvania, with a note saying “for whatever it may be worth.”
Mr. Brady determined the allegations “were not well founded,” like so much of the flimsy evidence that the Trump campaign had dug up.
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A mob breached the Capitol on Jan. 6.
January
On Jan. 5, Mr. Jordan was still pushing.
That day, he forwarded Mr. Meadows a text message he had received from a lawyer and former Pentagon inspector general outlining a legal strategy to overturn the election.
“On January 6, 2021, Vice President Mike Pence, as President of the Senate, should call out all the electoral votes that he believes are unconstitutional as no electoral votes at all — in accordance with guidance from founding father Alexander Hamilton and judicial precedence,” the text read.
On Jan. 6, Washington was overcast and breezy as thousands of people gathered at the Ellipse to hear Mr. Trump and his allies spread a lie that has become a rallying cry in the months since: that the election was stolen from them in plain view.
Mr. Brooks, wearing body armor, took the stage in the morning, saying he was speaking at the behest of the White House. The crowd began to swell.
“Today is the day American patriots start taking down names and kicking ass,” Mr. Brooks said. “Are you willing to do what it takes to fight for America?”
Just before noon, Mr. Pence released a letter that said he would not block certification. The power to choose the president, he said, belonged “to the American people, and to them alone.”
Mr. Trump approached the dais soon after and said the vice president did not have “the courage to do what should have been done to protect our country and our Constitution.”
“We will never give up,” Mr. Trump said. “We will never concede.”
Roaring their approval, many in the crowd began the walk down Pennsylvania Avenue toward the Capitol, where the certification proceeding was underway. Amped up by the speakers at the rally, the crowd taunted the officers who guarded the Capitol and pushed toward the building’s staircases and entry points, eventually breaching security along the perimeter just after 1 p.m.
By this point, the six lawmakers were inside the Capitol, ready to protest the certification. Mr. Gosar was speaking at 2:16 p.m. when security forces entered the chamber because rioters were in the building.
As the melee erupted, Senator Mitt Romney, Republican of Utah, yelled to his colleagues who were planning to challenge the election: “This is what you’ve gotten, guys.”
When Mr. Jordan tried to help Representative Liz Cheney, Republican of Wyoming, move to safety, she smacked his hand away, she later recounted to her aides.
“Get away from me,” she told him. “You fucking did this.”
A spokesman for Mr. Jordan disputed parts of the account, saying that Ms. Cheney did not curse at the congressman or slap him.
Of the six lawmakers, only Mr. Gosar and Mr. Jordan responded to requests for comment for this article, through their spokespeople.
The Aftermath
Mr. Perry was recently elected leader of the Freedom Caucus, elevating him to an influential leadership post as Republicans could regain control of the House in 2022. The stolen election claim is now a litmus test for the party, with Mr. Trump and his allies working to oust those who refuse to back it.
All six lawmakers are poised to be key supporters should Mr. Trump maintain his political clout before the midterm and general elections. Mr. Brooks is running for Senate in Alabama, and Mr. Gohmert is running for Texas attorney general.
Some, like Mr. Jordan, are in line to become committee chairs if Republicans take back the House. After Jan. 6, Mr. Jordan has claimed that he never said the election was stolen.
In many ways, they have tried to rewrite history. Several of the men have argued that the Jan. 6 attack was akin to a tourist visit to the Capitol. Mr. Gosar cast the attackers as “peaceful patriots across the country” who were harassed by federal prosecutors. A Pew research poll found that nearly two-thirds of Republicans said their party should not accept elected officials who criticize Mr. Trump.
Still, the House select committee investigating the Capitol attack appears to be picking up steam, voting this week to recommend that Mr. Meadows be charged with criminal contempt of Congress after he shifted from partly participating in the inquiry to waging a full-blown legal fight against the committee.
His fight is in line with Mr. Trump’s directive to stonewall the inquiry.
But the committee has signaled that it will investigate the role of members of Congress.
According to one prominent witness who was interviewed by the committee, investigators are interested in the relationship between Freedom Caucus members and political activists who organized “Stop the Steal” rallies before and after the election.
Representative Bennie Thompson, Democrat of Mississippi and the chairman of the committee, said the panel would follow the facts wherever they led, including to members of Congress.
“Nobody,” he said, “is off-limits.”
History will see this as an
1: attempted coup or
2; the end of the American dream.
Scott is a participant on the many ways, they have tried to rewrite history. Several of the men have argued that the Jan. 6 attack was akin to a tourist visit to the Capitol. Mr. Gosar cast the attackers as “peaceful patriots across the country” who were harassed by federal prosecutors. A Pew research poll found that nearly two-thirds of Republicans said their party should not accept elected officials who criticize Mr. Trump.
The Democratic regime has taken over the private companies. Communism is here!
Booster mandates begin
Caitlin Owens
Illustration: Aïda Amer/Axios
Businesses, employers and universities are taking the data into their own hands and requiring booster coronavirus shots.
Why it matters: Three shots work better than two at preventing infection, especially against the Omicron variant. But competing definitions of "fully vaccinated" based on where you live or work will inevitably confuse people.
Driving the news: Booster requirements are steadily rolling out across the country, even though the federal definition of "fully vaccinated" hasn't yet changed from two shots of Moderna or Pfizer and one of J&J.
Metropolitan Opera said yesterday that all eligible adult employees and audience members must get booster shots in order to enter, the NYT reports.Several universities — including Georgetown, NYU and two private colleges in Minnesota — have announced booster requirements for students and staff.The NFL is requiring players and coaches to get booster shots by Dec. 27.
The intrigue: Americans are split on what they think the definition of fully vaccinated is, according to Harris polling provided exclusively to Axios.
49% of adults said that "fully vaccinated" means two shots of Pfizer or Moderna or one shot of J&J, and 51% said that "fully vaccinated" now includes a booster.Nearly two-thirds of seniors feel that a booster is required to be fully vaccinated.
Between the lines: Even before the Omicron variant emerged, data had clearly shown that the protection offered by two doses of Pfizer and Moderna's vaccines against infection waned over time, although it remained very high against severe disease.
A third shot given several months later raised protection against infection to levels even higher than they were right after the second shot.Data also showed that a booster shot offered much stronger protection against infection than one shot of J&J's vaccine.Now, preliminary data suggests that two shots of mRNA vaccines and one shot of J&J aren't very effective at all against Omicron infection, but booster shots are.
What they're saying: When asked by a reporter yesterday about changing the official definition of fully vaccinated, CDC Director Rochelle Walensky didn't give any hints about when that may happen.
"We are continuing to follow that science and it is literally evolving daily. And as that science evolves, we will continue to review the data and update our recommendations as necessary," she said.
Yep...The hypocrisy of the GOP knows no bounds......after millions of dollars spent on Benghazi and e mails......not a single GOP vote was cast to hold Meadows accountable.....what a bunch of sorry fucking assholes!!!!!!
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Paging Trey Gowdy! Where’s the bulldog of Benghazi when his country needs him?
On Sept. 11, 2012, terrorists attacked the U.S. Consulate in Benghazi, Libya. Four Americans died.
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On Jan. 6, 2021, terrorists attacked the U.S. Capitol. Five people died during the attack and its immediate aftermath, including a police officer. Four more officers died by suicide in the following months. Another 140 police were injured.
The differing responses to the two tragedies show the rank hypocrisy in the Republican Party and the sickness that has taken hold of it.
Lawmakers launched eight congressional investigations of Benghazi over four years, culminating in a two-year, $7 million select-committee extravaganza led by Gowdy (R-S.C.), now out of Congress. Theirs was an unrelenting (and unsuccessful) campaign to prove a preconceived premise that then-Secretary of State Hillary Clinton had arranged for the U.S. military to “stand down” instead of coming to the aid of Ambassador J. Christopher Stevens and the other three victims.
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Now we know, thanks to the text messages of former Trump White House chief of staff Mark Meadows, that while domestic terrorists were sacking the Capitol and legislators hid in fear for their lives, several Republican lawmakers, Fox News personalities and Donald Trump Jr. reached out to Meadows to urge President Donald Trump to call off the attack. Trump refused for hours, and his Pentagon stalled on an urgent plea to deploy the National Guard to defend the Capitol.
Essentially, Trump did just what Republicans falsely accused Clinton of doing in Benghazi. And attacking the U.S. seat of government is orders of magnitude worse than attacking a diplomatic outpost.
The coup is ongoing. The traitors are still there, and they're going to continue to destroy our Constitution every opportunity they have.
Jim Jordan is a traitor.
So is Scott Johnson.
What law did Jordan and Meadows break alky?
BE SURE TO GO TO politicalwire.com AND LOOK AT THE AMAZING CHART
Chart of the Day
December 16, 2021 at 8:49 am EST By Taegan Goddard 49 Comments
The difference in death rates from Covid-19 between Republican and Democratic counties is becoming even more staggering.
Most Republicans Cling to Trump’s Big Lie
December 16, 2021 at 8:06 am EST By Taegan Goddard 71 Comments
A new Bright Line Watch poll finds just 27% of Republicans accept President Biden as the winner of the 2020 election.
The January 6 Puzzle Piece Being Largely Ignored
December 16, 2021 at 7:42 am EST By Taegan Goddard 30 Comments
“As Donald Trump and his allies squeezed then-Vice President Mike Pence to single-handedly stop Joe Biden’s presidency in the weeks ahead of Jan. 6, they used one particular tool that’s been largely ignored ever since,” POLITICO REPORTS.
Rep. Louie Gohmert (R-TX) sued Pence on Dec. 27, just as Trump was ratcheting up his pressure campaign against his vice president… Gohmert’s move forced Pence to publicly resist Trump’s subversion of the election, only a week before the fateful Jan. 6 joint session of Congress. When the Justice Department stepped in to defend Pence from the lawsuit on Dec. 29, it marked the first time Pence signaled he wouldn’t fold to Trump’s demands.”
“But what remains unknown is just how involved Trump was in Gohmert’s legal strategy.”
ARE TREASON CHARGES AGAINST TRUMP WAITING IN THE WINGS?
How Mark Meadows Fought to Keep Trump in Power
December 16, 2021 at 7:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard 9 Comments
“A small circle of Republican lawmakers, working closely with President Donald Trump’s chief of staff, took on an outsize role in pressuring the Justice Department, amplifying conspiracy theories and flooding the courts in an attempt to overturn the 2020 election,” THE NEW YORK TIMES REPORTS.
William Saletan comments on:
The chilling lesson of Mark Meadows’ text messages.
The Final Battle for Covid
December 16, 2021 at 7:14 am EST By Taegan Goddard 41 Comments
Tomas Pueyo:
“If you haven’t had COVID before, you’re going to get it.”
“You can only escape it while you lock yourself out. The moment you come back into society, you will get exposed to it. Paradoxically, this can be good.”
“This is the final battle for COVID. It’s throwing everything it has at us and will overwhelm the world. But in doing so, it might have weakened itself. And it’s attacking at a moment when the world is well-armed with vaccines and prior infections.
“In this final battle, many people will die. But they might be few in comparison to what it could have been.”
THE GUARDIAN:
Omicron found to grow 70 times faster than Delta in bronchial tissue.
OF COURSE, YOU CAN IGNORE THAT AND ADD YOURSELF TO THE CHART.
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